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Finding#6 . NPRM-stage CPI-U buying-power figures invented (verbatim-quote request)

RLB Citation ID: RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q020

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Finding#6 . NPRM-stage CPI-U buying-power figures invented (verbatim-quote request)

Citation ID: RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q020-Sonnet46
AI's failure: AI invented February-2023 figures in a CCO briefing memo where the NPRM records different figures
Risk for the Compliance team: Operational decision-support exposure on CCO briefing memos that quote AI-supplied NPRM-era figures For compliance teams at management & risk consulting firms working on CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the AI's stated answer reads as a verbatim quotation that staff would paste into a register entry, memo, or client deliverable before verification against the source. The regulator's own text records a different position. The NPRM records, using CPI-U data as of February 2023, that the $2,000,000 threshold has the same buying power as approximately $4,270,000, and the $200,000 threshold has the same buying power as approximately $427,000. Sonnet 4.6, asked to quote both NPRM-era figures verbatim, produced $4,070,000 and $407,000. The answer is the same fabrication pattern as Finding 11: a coherent NPRM-stage paragraph anchored on figures that the NPRM does not record. For the compliance teams at management & risk consulting firms working this question into an internal compliance, legal, operations, or risk record, the AI's stated answer would embed an error into the working record that downstream reviewers treat as verified.
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RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q020-Sonnet46 Claude Sonnet 4.6 (web search on)

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RegLeg Specialist Panel (2026). "Finding#6 . NPRM-stage CPI-U buying-power figures invented (verbatim-quote request) — Management Consulting × Compliance — United States." Citation ID: RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q020. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research, published 2026-06-11. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/sectors/management_consulting/compliance/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-020/

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RegLeg Specialist Panel. (2026). Finding#6 . NPRM-stage CPI-U buying-power figures invented (verbatim-quote request) [Hallucination finding RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q020]. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/sectors/management_consulting/compliance/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-020/

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RegLeg Specialist Panel, Finding#6 . NPRM-stage CPI-U buying-power figures invented (verbatim-quote request) [RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q020], RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research (June 11, 2026), https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/sectors/management_consulting/compliance/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-020/.

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@misc{reglegbrief_RLB_F_US_CFTC_CPO_CTA_REGULATION_4_7_QEP_THRESHOLDS_2024_Q020,
  author    = {RegLeg Specialist Panel},
  title     = {Finding#6 . NPRM-stage CPI-U buying-power figures invented (verbatim-quote request)},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research},
  note      = {Hallucination finding Citation ID: RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q020},
  url       = {https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/sectors/management_consulting/compliance/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-020/}
}

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